Earth Systems Science for the Anthropocene
A new graduate training initiative solving global challenges from the bottom-up.
The ESSA Graduate Scholars Network provides ASU graduate students with the opportunity to engage in immersive, interdisciplinary, and identity-based team research projects in earth systems science; to learn to apply their core disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge to actionable science-based societal problems needing new solutions; to learn to communicate effectively with decision-makers, policymakers, and community leaders about wicked problems needing complex solutions; to develop the skills necessary for careers in academic, public, private and nonprofit sectors; and to be a part of the coproduction of knowledge in the emerging science of the earth system.
The developing ESSA initiative at ASU, directed by Nancy Grimm (School of Life Sciences) and Abigail York (School of Human Evolution and Social Change), aims to re-think how we approach graduate training in the Anthropocene.
